BILL NUMBER: AJR 6	CHAPTERED  07/09/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   58
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 9, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   JULY 6, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   JULY 1, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 10, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 17, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Briggs
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Aanestad, Cox, House, Leach,
Leonard, Oller, Robert Pacheco, Runner, and Zettel)

                        FEBRUARY 12, 1999

   Assembly Joint Resolution No. 6--Relative to federal
transportation funds.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AJR 6, Briggs.  Transportation:  federal funds.
   This measure would memorialize the President and the Congress to
use the framework established under the federal Transportation Equity
Act for the 21st Century when allocating federal transportation
funds to California.




   WHEREAS, The allocation of federal transportation funds was
reformed under the federal Transportation Equity Act for the 21st
Century (P.L.  105-178), commonly known as TEA-21, in a manner that
greatly increases the share of federal transportation dollars that
states are eligible to receive; and
   WHEREAS, The recent surge in the federal transportation fund,
spurred by unexpected gas tax and car sales tax revenues, would mean
that states would receive an additional eight hundred fifty-eight
million dollars ($858,000,000) above and beyond the amount of funds
that was expected under last year's agreement; and
   WHEREAS, California's share of that transportation fund surplus
would be one hundred twenty-one million dollars ($121,000,000) in
additional funds under the TEA-21 formulas, which funds could be used
for much needed transportation projects; and
   WHEREAS, The United States Department of Transportation has
proposed diverting the eight hundred fifty-eight million dollar
surplus to federal programs; and
   WHEREAS, State and local governments are best qualified to
evaluate the specific transportation needs of their state local area;
and
   WHEREAS, The additional federal transportation funds could be used
for projects such as road construction, reduction of traffic
congestion, and air quality improvements; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of California,
jointly, That the Legislature urges the Congress and the President of
the United States to use the framework established under the
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century when allocating
federal transportation funds to California; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United
States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each
Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the
United States.
